Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mesic had been due to take up office on May 15 , under the system of rotating leadership , but Serbia , Vojvodina and Bosnia Hercegovina blocked his appointment , thus precipitating a constitutional deadlock . |
| 2 | If the Department of Health are prepared to shell out money to keepers of a vermin-infested tenement then the officials are to blame . |
| 3 | BRITAIN 'S next generation of buy-in managers will be experienced managing directors seeking greater job satisfaction and who are prepared to invest around £100,000 , according to research by investment capital group 3i . |
| 4 | Will he now reconsider his advice that local initiative will solve all these problems , given that he has undermined local initiative in the example quoted earlier about people who have been willing to put up £17 million of locally raised money for a project which was undermined by the Welsh Office ? |
| 5 | Some commentators have complained that Clark 's title , Civilisation , was misleading , as only Western arts were treated ; but even if Clark had been willing to take on world art , costs would no doubt have prevented such a grandiose project . |
| 6 | I knew now that I might have been foolish to have expected so much from Waite , but he had been the only person who 'd been willing to treat both kidnappers and hostages as human beings and to attempt some kind of understanding about how the situation could be resolved . |
| 7 | Students from countries within the European Community are free to take up employment during vacations but unemployment is high in the United Kingdom and there are few jobs vacant . |
| 8 | Without unions fighting to keep up wages , employers are free to cut back costs by squeezing pay rather than by sacking marginal workers . |
| 9 | I think , therefore we are extremely fortunate , that so many people of distinction and talent are willing to give up time to serve on the Executive of the N C V O to work with the honourary officers and the Director and her team , to ensure that N C V O maintain such a central role in watching over our interests and in promoting the concerns of the people of this country , that we are all so active about . |
| 10 | Parties to the English sea waybill are willing to give up transferability in exchange for an extra measure of security , especially against fraudulent issuances . |
| 11 | The disputes in the councils which followed the election of Sinn Fein representatives in 1985 has made it clear that loyalists are willing to close down councils rather than work with Sinn Fein , and the younger generation of DUP activists has been fully active in the promotion of that position . |
| 12 | We are delighted to welcome back LTA Rover coach Olga Morozova to Tennis World . |
| 13 | ‘ Are you so afraid of being wrong that you 're prepared to put up warning notices for those involved ? ’ |
| 14 | And yo yo well how did you know that they 're ready to move then daddy ? |
| 15 | ‘ A lot of foxes have mange , and handling them , you are likely to pick up mites . |
| 16 | Republicans are likely to pick up seats in the House , so he might have more leverage there , but this will be counter-balanced by the probable increase in the number of Democratic seats in the Senate . |
| 17 | Then we are likely to seek out people who can be close to us , sometimes clinging to them for support , as if our own security was dependent upon their actual and continued physical presence . |
| 18 | Farmers are short of cash , and are likely to step up sales early in the season , lifting exports from the two countries to near record levels over the next six months . |
| 19 | Barnet , desperate for money to resolve their problems , are likely to net around £500,000 from the sale to Notts County of striker Gary Bull , cousin of Wolves striker Steve . |
| 20 | As the mouthpiece of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities , he asks whether authorities are supposed to send out bills for 100 per cent . |
| 21 | The Flying Foxes are the Siamese variety , which are supposed to gobble up algae faster than it can grow . |
| 22 | ‘ Angie had nothing to complain about — anyone would have been glad to put up £100,000 to get in here . |
| 23 | If elected local authorities are fit to draw up development plans and to judge the vast majority of planning applications , it would be odd to say that they were not fit to judge their own development proposals . |
| 24 | ‘ I am sure putting up lights would not cost a lot and it would give us peace of mind . ’ |
| 25 | It expressed concern , however , that UN bodies had been unable to carry out measures mandated for the 1988-89 biennium due to lack of funds . |
| 26 | Many keen to set up in business will also be hampered because they have been unable to build up capital . |
| 27 | While this is not conceptually difficult many trainees are reluctant to give up labels that they believe are common sense shorthand . |
| 28 | The size of this type of unemployment is obviously extremely difficult to estimate , but it may be quite substantial , particularly in those industries with powerful trade unions where employers are reluctant to lay off workers for fears of initiating an industrial dispute . |
| 29 | Though I am reluctant to lay down rules , I do find the following guidelines , set out in the Fowlers ' The King ‘ s English , helpful as a sort of mental checklist for my own work : |
| 30 | We are unable to explain why vitamin B12 absorption decreased during treatment with loperamide oxide , but can only comment that the magnitude of the change was relatively small . |